“A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.”
“Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!”
“Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.”
“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.”
“A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.”
“Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.”
“As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.”
“Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.”
“I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.”
“The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.”
“Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.”
“Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.”
“I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.”